Games section

4. Games news from all over the world

• Epic Marketing is beeing reorganized

Epic Marketing found two new enterprises, Epic Interactive and Epic Multimedia. Epic Interactive will be responsable for the development of games and Epic Multimedia for the distribution of products. After the publication of Simon the Sorcerer 2, Dafel Bloodline and Earth 2140, the Classic Amiga will only be supported in the future when these games are sold very, very good, otherwise there will be no longer support. Epic Marketing Germany will be closed and so the support stops.

• Nightlong in production

In the middle of September clickBOOM anounced that Nightlong is in production. Right after publishing you can read here a detailed review.

• Earth 2140

Epic Interactive has anounced details about the Amiga version of the strategy game Earth 2140. The game runs in 16bit, due to this a graphicboard is necessary. At least a 68040 cpu is needed, PPC support is obligatory. As date of release November 2000 is planned.

• Gilbert Goodmate also for PPC

Crystal Interactive Software searchs a PPC programmer for Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom Phrygmania. This means that there will be a PPC version of the game. Gilbert Goodmate is said to be released this year.

• Aminet Games published

Schatztruhe published a new Aminet CD-ROM, especially with games. A testreport is included in this edition.

• Crystal Software

Crystal Interactive Software has anounced that Blittersoft will manage the worldwide distribution of all their Amiga products.

• Lambda

There are news of the Space 3D spectacle Lambda: After months of few information there is now to read on the homepage "status: paused". It is not clear if this means the end of development but it seams to be far away of completion.

• Bubble Heroes published

This month Bubble Heroes by Crystal Interactive Software has been released, distributed by Blittersoft. Bubble Heroes is a classic puzzle and it is to be hoped that it will be tested in the next AMIGA aktuell international.

• Novelty from Exodus - The Last War

The developer of Exodus - The Last War, a Command & Conquer clone, have told that the game will be completed soon.There are 64 missions in 20 different sceneries, each fight can be fought in the air, in the water or on the ground. For the game you need at least a 68030, 16 MB Fast RAM and AGA or graphicboard. It is said that there will be some bonus programs on the CD.

• Virtual Ball Fighters published

Epic Marketing (in future Epic Interactive) has published Virtual Ball Fighters this month. Unfortunately I cannot present a test report because Epic Marketing does not hand out any test copies to online magazines.